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Source: Nanotechwire.com
http://nanotechwire.com/news.asp?nid=5527

A novel approach to synthesizing nanowires (NWs) allows their direct integration with microelectronic systems for the first time, as well as their ability to act as highly sensitive biomolecule detectors that could revolutionize biological diagnostic applications, according to a report in Nature.   “We electronically plugged into the biochemical system of cells,” said senior author Mark Reed, Harold Hodgkinson Professor of Engineering & Applied Science. “These developments have profound implications both for application of nanoscience technologies and for the speed and sensitivity they bring to the future of diagnostics.” (more…)

By staff reporter, LabTechnologist.com / 6 Feb. 2008
http://www.labtechnologist.com/news/ng.asp?
n=82978-tu-delft-bionanoscience-emerging-scientific-disipline-the-kavli-foundation-nanotechnology

Delft Technology University (TU Delft) in the Netherlands, has decided to create a new bionanoscience department in a clear indication of what it feels is one of the key up and coming scientific fields. Over the next decade, TU Delft will invest €10m derived from its assets in the new department, which will form part of the university’s Kavli Institute of Nanoscience. The Kavli Foundation will also donate $5m (€3.4m).
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